THE NORTHERN STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XI, Issue 1273, 17 May 1882, Page 2

THE NORTHERN STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

,Again 'ii'beco'mes our duty to testify against the' disgraoe,f ul incompetence displayed by the 'Nyrtheirn. Sreamiship Company in. the manager .meat; 6'f ''%%.& trade 'between' A.u«klahd and i^aijranga. ■ Tho g.s. Wellington — it is almost without exception* tho Wellington' which is 'the"example of bad manayoment— left Queen streeti yharf , [ Auckland^ on Monday at halfpaiijt five p. pi., pur authonty for this'statement Ibeing 4jie Official u maritimiQ" telegram priite^ at'tfie 1 telegraph bffice, dawdled about, as usftal,, with Captain Farquhar under easy stenm, all iiight, and instead of 'catching the tide my time before 1 nine' o'clock yesterday morning/ and 'so coming up to the wharf, did ! not reach tho man- of -war anchorage until 1 eleven. ;One boat load of pasaengors reached the tqwii^ wharf at iten'. minutes to twelve, ,A second at twenty minutes past twelve ; tlio mail teached the Post Office at a quarter io

I one ot thei'o'fj.bont9. . Now these arc the facts ,of tho^ cajjjoo: Wo hayo 50,,, p^toh and so fully gone Jinto this matter, havo slioavu how ■damning the effect of such a state of things is ,on the!iinindj/6f the. travplling public — both 'tourist and cornmorcial .sections — that wo aro siqk- al heart of the ; whole subject. Evidently iiotb.iil^ r but>an organised offort, and united -d6&dny. Qk tiio 1 #wb. of' tho shippora and the public generally will ■ oifect any alteration for thebejtter, {